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Electrum-server for the Verge Electrum client

  • Author: Thomas Voegtlin
  • Language: Python

Features

  • The server indexes UTXOs by address, in a Patricia tree structure described by Alan Reiner (see the 'ultimate blockchain compression' thread in the Bitcointalk forum)

  • The server requires VERGEd, leveldb, and plyvel

  • The server code is open source. Anyone can run a server, removing single points of failure concerns.

Installation

  1. To install and run a server, see INSTALL. For greater detail on the installation process, see HOWTO.md.

  2. To start and stop the server, use the 'electrum-server' script

License

Electrum-server is made available under the terms of the MIT License. See the included LICENSE for more details.